Hideki Tojo
• 40th prime minister of Japan.
• He was a supporter of Sadao Araki.
• Hideki Tojo was Prime Minister of Japan who planned to attack on Pearl Harbor ( far East) which led to the destruction of Hiroshima in August 1945.
• Tojo made it clear that Japan should push south in the Far East and take land owned by European nations. On October 14th, 1941, Tojo was appointed Prime Minister of Japan.
• He decided that a massive knock-out blow would remove America from the Pacific.
• Tōjō is often considered responsible for authorizing the murder of millions of civilians in China, the Philippines, Indochina, and other Pacific island nations, as well as tens of thousands of Allies.
As a military commander, he was responsible for the Rape of Nanking, The South Korea comfort girlsthe Bataan Death March, the wide spread death among POW.
The Bataan Death March.
It took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. The march of the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war. There were physical abuse, murder, and not giving food or water but kept marching in tropical heat.
Hideki Tojo
• 40th prime minister of Japan.
• He was a supporter of Sadao Araki.
• Hideki Tojo was Prime Minister of Japan who planned to attack on Pearl Harbor ( far East) which led to the destruction of Hiroshima in August 1945.
• Tojo made it clear that Japan should push south in the Far East and take land owned by European nations. On October 14th, 1941, Tojo was appointed Prime Minister of Japan.
• He decided that a massive knock-out blow would remove America from the Pacific.
• Tōjō is often considered responsible for authorizing the murder of millions of civilians in China, the Philippines, Indochina, and other Pacific island nations, as well as tens of thousands of Allies.
As a military commander, he was responsible for the Rape of Nanking, The South Korea comfort girls the Bataan Death March, the wide spread death among POW.
The Bataan Death March.
It took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. The march of the forcible transfer of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war. There were physical abuse, murder, and not giving food or water but kept marching in tropical heat.
Rape of Nanking.